I’m playing around with one of my other domains, RabbitTales.com, and seeing if I might be able to turn it into something useful.

One of the core technologies I’m investigating is the use of a REALLY cools site for those who like to read, OpenLibrary.org. In finding my way around it I decided to try to get a developer instance of the software running. However, it currently is only supported on Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10. Given that those are getting a little long in the tooth, I decided to see if I can get it running on Ubuntu 12.04. It appears that I have had some success although the testing has been limited to getting the site up and running. I haven’t tried to do much to it.

The only gotcha that I have found so far is that Python 2.7 supplies the “importlib” module and the OpenLibraries bundle also provides an implementation which causes a conflict. Once found a workaround is fairly simple and follows.

I have done some testing of sdTime 1.2.0 and 1.3.0 on Mac OS X 10.8 GM release provided to developers. Both releases function as expected.

A note on time zone abbreviations:

Some of the time zone abbreviations have changed in Mac OS X 10.8. Users will see these new abbreviations when they run sdTime on Mac OS X 10.8. This is expected behavior.

Did I see a mention of sdTime 1.3.0?

Yes. I am finalizing sdTime 1.3.0 and I’m planning on submitting it to the Mac App Store in the next few days. It will hopefully be available by early August. Stay tuned for the announcement and the new features.

[Update: Aug 2, 2012… v1.3.0 is still “Waiting For Review.” – Article originally published on July 22, 2012.]

Something that a lot of people don’t realize is that, by the political time zone definitions, time zones range from GMT-11:00 to GMT+14:00. That means, for one hour each day there are three active dates on the globe as shown by this screen capture. Neither American Samoa (Pago Pago) nor the Line Islands (Kiritimati) observe Daylight Savings Time.

Officially the time zones range from GMT-12:00 to GMT+14:00. If I’m reading the IANA database correctly Kwajalein was the last location to use the GMT-12:00 designation, and it swapped to GMT+12:00 in 1993. The IANA database information can be found at http://www.iana.org/time-zones.

The above screen shot was taken using the “Planning View” that is part of sdTime 1.2.0 which was just submitted to the Mac App store. Watch this space (or your App Store Updates) for availability of 1.2.0.